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September 14, 2024
The story of the eaten cats is the story of neo-colonialism in AmericaHaving never been to Springfield, Ohio, I can’t really say if Haitian refugees are dining on felines. The media says it’s fake news. Local residents attest they’ve seen it. Who should one believe? These days, it is always good to...
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July 27, 2024
Suburban moms focused on Kamala’s intersectionalism ignore their kids’ futuresThe two greatest demographic bulwarks of the modern Democrat Party are urban blacks and suburban college-educated women. The first is a true mystery, given the degradation of our cities under 70 years of straight Democrat control. The second, though,...
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July 18, 2024
Please, Mr. Trump. sue them until they bleed!As our esteemed President, Joseph Robinette Biden, recently intoned, we should tone down the hateful rhetoric and be about unity. Of course, doing so would overlook his evil and infamous “red light” speech given at Independence Hall (a sa...
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April 24, 2024
A simple question that no one asks about the leftist college demonstratorThere is no end to the observations one can make about the current pro-Hamas university demonstrations. Some are obvious, but I’d like to offer a less obvious take on the unrest we’re seeing. I could ask where the university security p...
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December 7, 2023
With saber-rattling down in Venezuela, who really benefits?I’d like to think that what we write in these posts might actually matter. Perhaps wishful thinking, but perhaps not. In this case, I’d like to think that dragging a developing situation into full daylight might do something to prevent it...
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November 17, 2023
Taking the fight to academia: Targeting leftist institutions’ fabulous endowmentsFifty billion dollars. That is the size of some of the endowments held by our institutions of higher learning. The 15 largest university endowments in the US total over $325 billion dollars. In 2022, there were over 80 private universities and 50 sta...
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October 22, 2023
Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman have sowed, but they hate the reapingLeft-wing harpies Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman spoke out this week against the lies of the NY Times, which argued that the alleged Gaza hospital bombing (which never happened) and Israel’s military responses, in general, are the same as the ...
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September 8, 2023
The Democrat party, not Biden, is the problem in AmericaI would warn and encourage AT readers to take no joy in the upcoming, preordained derailment of Joe Biden’s presidential reelection aspirations. Biden is a semi-senile, corruption-pock-marked albatross around the neck of a party that doesn...
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July 26, 2023
Did the Soviet Union Really Collapse?In Total War: The Story of World War II, Peter Calvocoressi and Guy Wint showed how the conflict was globally pervasive and was waged equally against civilians and combatants. What if, unbeknownst to us, we were still in a total war that’s actu...
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July 4, 2023
The Deep State is the new American AristocracyConservatives made great progress a few years ago when they stopped using "Liberals" to signify the left. "Progressives" was a step in the right direction, but can we simply use the term "leftists"? ...
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May 17, 2023
Can we please stop using the term 'President Biden'?AT readers know well the array of dementia signs in the current occupant of the White House. I'm sure most would contend that Biden is not mentally capable of the office. And yet, how many AT essays and comments decry this o...
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April 4, 2023
Will you like what’s coming?At the rate things are going, we’d better start preparing for life under perpetual Democrat or Uniparty governance. Here are just a few points to ponder about what that life might be like. Feel free to share with Woke family and friends. Do ...
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September 6, 2022
The Democrat left, financial markets, and your life savingsLike many of you, I've seen my retirement assets decline by 20% just since January. So let me state something that I've been avoiding focusing on myself. There is no way that a free-market, capitalist financial...
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July 5, 2022
Why I pray that Michelle Obama runs in 2024We all know that Barack Obama is having his third presidential term in the form of the senile presidency of Joe Biden. Just ask Valerie Jarrett. The transformation of America and its circling-the-bowl descent to Venezuela is pro...
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June 2, 2022
Does Uvalde reflect the culture of death America embraced in 1973?"Man Charged in Fatal Shooting of Two Women and Unborn Child." This headline ran this weekend in my hometown in a newspaper for a neighborhood that is a bastion of Progressivism. I had to do a real double-take when I r...
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April 28, 2022
Fifteen reasons why no one should vote Democrat this NovemberI prepared this list to feature some highlights from the last several decades of Democrat party control and behavior that show exactly how much self-delusion will be required to pull any Democrat lever in November. One: Allowed a historic (on...
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March 24, 2022
Lysenko: A cautionary tale for the West"Follow the Science" seems to have replaced "Go with God" as humanity's go-to prayer. At least, the left would have us think so. But science is a much more complicated construction than leftists want you ...
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March 12, 2022
It's time to do a cold, hard appraisal of where America is nowSometimes it is good to take a big step back and reflect. This is definitely true now for Americans, even though you won't like what it brings. And I think the clock is ticking. Let's reflect upon what has gone down s...
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March 7, 2022
Currently, the world is taking half-measures against PutinDevotees of American westerns might recall a line from Firecreek, an old-time Hollywood western with Jimmy Stewart as the good guy and his friend Henry Fonda as the bad guy. In the movie, Fonda believes he's killed Stewart, only t...
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February 23, 2022
Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada should start worryingEveryone recalls Biden's remark that the U.S. might soft-pedal its response if Russia engaged in only a "minor incursion" in Ukraine. Well, surprise, surprise! Given the green light from Biden, Russia is unilateral...
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February 17, 2022
Unaddressed issues corrode America like battery acidThese days, when it comes to news reports about issues that matter, a lot falls through the cracks. A slightly exaggerated analogy would be hearing on Friday night (because that's when the big stories always drop) that two U....
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February 3, 2022
I wouldn't exactly call Biden's oil and gas policies treasonThis weekend, I heard Congresswoman Comrade Tlaib's trial balloon that Biden needs to reinstitute (Obama's) restrictions on U.S. oil and gas exports. As the sheer insanity of that platform permeated my brain, I took a step back and...
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January 19, 2022
A Republican NeverTrump senator reveals more than he meantI recently wrote to my United States senator, a Republican NeverTrump, respectfully asking why the January 6 detainees are still in jail, with many still in solitary and not arraigned for what was essentially trespassing on public property (forgettin...
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January 15, 2022
Watch for warWhat do tyrants do when their ship is sinking or, more accurately, when they realize that their house of cards will not hold up? They divert their populace by starting a war — or at least allowing one to happen. War isn...
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January 1, 2022
The United States In 2040I do not write this article for the typical American Thinker reader. Like me, the typical reader already recoils in revulsion and fear about the direction this country and world are heading. I write instead for the Leftist sappers and monitors who wa...
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November 3, 2021
A cell biologist believes COVID-19 was man-made in WuhanSpoiler alert: My belief actually has nothing to do with my cell biology background or my own biomedical research involving COVID. It is simple "connect the dots"–type reasoning that anyone can employ. It is not ...
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October 22, 2021
The top item on the ruling leftist elite's agenda: obedienceWhy does the left like and protect Muslims? For a feminist, anti-religion, gay- and transgender-friendly cadre like the ruling leftist elite, the love affair with Islam is a mystery. And why is it forcing us to pretend Islam is ...
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September 18, 2021
An urgent message to Deep State elitistsI'm going to go way out on a limb here and say I suspect that it's not just patriotic deplorables who read the essays in American Thinker. It's not an intergalactic leap to assume that what is written here gets "monitored...
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August 23, 2021
Fast and Furious, part IIRemember your outrage when you learned that Obama and Holder decided to allow quite valuable weapons to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels to purportedly allow for tracing of said weapons in drug-related activities? Still worse, t...
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August 17, 2021
Kabul: What's a progressive, woke elitist to do?Imagine the horror! All your teen and adult life, you've been taught that feminism is sacrosanct and LGBT issues are equally holy. But you've also been taught that indigenous peoples and movements are to be solemnly praised. ...
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August 13, 2021
When it comes to the 'Right Stuff,' it's up to usIn The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe's tribute to American greatness, exemplified by the original Mercury Program astronauts of the 1960s (and one incredibly heroic X15 test pilot), you'll find a manual showing why you might want to be proud to...
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June 3, 2021
America's greatest enemyAncient Troy. Ever wonder about the internal discussions that went on in that city and civilization when The Horse showed up outside its gates? The Trojans had just survived a multi-year war and were emerging victorious, with th...
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May 18, 2021
An alternative hypothesis for the madness in America"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." —Sherlock Holmes (in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four). Suddenly, the news is filled with stories abo...
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March 26, 2021
A bone-chilling warning from recent totalitarian historyThis week, with almost no fanfare in the American media, Communist China and Russia announced that, in July, they will re-up their 2001 pact entitled "The Russian-Chinese Treaty of Good Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation." ...
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April 14, 2020
Why they hate America, Western Civilization and GodI’ve long wondered why so many family and friends fall into this category. We grew up in the same homes, went to the same grade schools as kids, had the same parents, attended (as kids) the same churches. To engage in the hate that they do, Pro...
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July 27, 2019
Bloomberg: An integral part of the swampAn economics article in Bloomberg.com on Friday by Rich Miller highlights in one sentence a major element of what is wrong with our elites in the United States. President Donald Trump failed to achieve his much-ballyhooed 3% target for...
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July 20, 2019
George Wallace and the SquadHere’s some shocking history for progressives/leftists to digest. As late as the 1970s, the Democratic Party had a firebrand segregationist become governor of a major sunbelt state, and run a surprisingly successful national campaign for ...
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May 14, 2019
The trade war mathWatch carefully now as various politicians, pundits, editors, news anchors, etc. weigh in on the U.S.-China trade war. You won't know truly who is on Beijing's payroll, but it'll be fun to guess. Watch for surprises ...
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May 11, 2019
Democratic Party dreck: See how many you can recallThe so-called party of the common man seems to have more than its share of trash. One wonders if the Democrats below actually have had any time left over to represent the people. If you can't recall or are unaware of any ...
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April 26, 2019
How the Left is saving me moneyAlthough the Left in recent years has elevated my blood pressure, increased my gastric acidity, and made family gatherings a bit more rancorous, I am truly grateful to the Left for improving my bank account. The Left's recent trashing ...
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April 2, 2019
Why we keep losing so many battlesOn a recent program by Mark Levin featuring John Solomon and Sarah Carter, there was one statement – or thought – that I find uttered time and time again by some of the right’s best spokespeople, that continually blows me ...
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March 29, 2019
Two crimes perpetrated on the American peopleAn interesting week. In Chicago, a man who seems to have perpetrated a hate crime hoax gets off scot-free. It would simply be laughable and another stain on the city of Chicago except that Jussie Smollett accomplished two notewo...
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March 6, 2019
The Democratic moderate and the endangered species listJust the other day, the rather powerful Dianne Feinstein was bushwhacked in her office by a group of leftist schoolchildren demanding that she acquiesce to the Green New Deal. It was a true Kodak moment. Using children as stooges has beco...
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January 12, 2019
ABC News throws Bill Clinton under the busThis Thursday (January 10), in prime time, the unthinkable happened: ABC ran a two-hour special describing what a screw-up, perv, and narcissist William Jefferson Clinton was. A parade of ABC reporters and news folks chimed in, clucking ho...
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November 22, 2018
Things fall apartI recently picked my nephew up from a suburban train station just outside Philly at 5:55 P.M. one evening. Reassuringly, at five minutes to six, I saw a train coming toward the station but then shooting past it. So I assume...
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October 4, 2018
Are there no mothers with sons in Hawaii?The Kavanaugh hearings have been illuminating in many ways. We have been witness to some incredible ironies, such as the estimable paragon of Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, lecturing Judge Kavanaugh about lack of credibility. ...
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September 19, 2018
The unmentioned victims of the Kavanaugh lynchingIn the accusations leveled at Brett Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford, we hear about the damage done to the nomination process, damage done to the Senate, damage to the accused, and even damage done to the accuser. Curiously, we d...
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April 30, 2018
Trump-hatredConservatives would be making an enormous mistake to think the hatred of Trump by the media is personal and due to him. In their hearts and over their lattes, leftists may confess that Trump disgusts them, but they really don't hate him. ...
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March 27, 2018
Some thoughts from Valley ForgeLucky to live within a 30-minute drive to Valley Forge National Park, I get to go there often. Many think the park is at its most beautiful in the spring, with the abundant native white dogwoods and rhododendrons in full dis...
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July 24, 2017
Two overlooked health care factorsAs one who has worked in the medical health care system for over 30 years, let me cut through the complexity that so paralyzes many of our legislators to reveal that there are only two issues at stake in a "repeal and replace" legislat...
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May 20, 2017
Riddle me thisMost AT readers are by now well aware of the controversy surrounding the murder of the young DNC staffer, Seth Rich, who may or may not have been the source of the WikiLeaks exposure of Hillary Clinton and John Podesta emails last summer. Mr. R...
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April 27, 2017
The Wall as explained by the law of mass actionSometimes, things are that simple. In chemistry, there is a simple but profound law that all first-year students learn: that matter at high concentrations automatically diffuses toward matter at low concentrations. In biologic...
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March 14, 2017
An ex-CIA director and Stephen Colbert: Comedy Central?Ex-CIA director Michael Hayden recently appeared on Stephen Colbert's not so funny comedy/late night show. The occasion was to bash Trump and his administration for their "collusion" with Russia and for Trump's recent asser...
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February 14, 2017
The Philadelphia soda tax and leftismThe People's Republic of Philadelphia now taxes the consumption of sugar. Yes, sugar. As in glucose, fructose, sucrose. You know, the essential fuels for all animal life. Those guys. The leftists who govern Philadelphia...
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November 18, 2016
Hillary’s clienteleIf you’re a basketball player who has been entrusted with the task of intentionally throwing a game in which you are playing, it is an exceedingly bad thing if you sprain an ankle just beforehand and are unable to play. Granted, it’...
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October 12, 2016
'You’d be in jail'Charles Krauthammer is outraged that a candidate for president would threaten to jail another candidate. He feels that it relegates us to true banana republic status. On the face of it, it does seem third-world-dictator-stuff to do...
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August 26, 2016
Gays, Hillary, the Democrats, and shariaP.T. Barnum uttered one of America’s great folk insights: “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Ah, if Mr. Barnum were only alive today. One of the Democrat’s most loyal contingents apparently places their poli...
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August 23, 2016
Trump should be the choice of the liberal CatholicIf you have ever donated even a dollar to Catholic Relief Services, you obviously feel compassion for not just Americans in need, but the world in need. So ask yourself this: which candidate in 2016 is truly better for the world’s po...
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May 6, 2016
Trump and the Tea PartyAs apprehensive as I am about Donald Trump, I would never put myself in the Never Trump camp. To do so would be to totally neutralize the power that I and millions of other Tea Party members are now handed. To Mr. Trump I toss out one sim...
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March 29, 2016
Human achievements from the totalitarian leftThese are interesting times. The United States stands ready to espouse a collectivism that its very founders were repelled by and that its citizens fought and died to defeat. Western Europe seems compelled to surrender itself to a r...
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December 17, 2015
Other people's kidsIt has been well-known for years in conservative circles that the left is extremely charitable with other people’s money. In fact, liberals are notorious for their dearth of personal charity, instead favoring government programs that pers...